Officially Lucky

Facebook advertisers think I'm gay

This isn't the first time I've gotten gay ads. You know, not that I mind, I'm just curious as to why! :)

People love my shared items feed

It's a bit surreal, but I've heard from quite a few people that my shared items feed (a.k.a. linkblog type thing) is a really good read and they find a lot of awesome stuff in it. It's a big mixup of cool artistic stuff, extremely interesting articles I've read, weird shit, and cool development (programming) posts. I can't really explain what sort of genre it falls into, but it's unabashedly Clint. Many people may not know that I post linky-things to two different places. I use both Google Reader and I share items I don't find in Google Reader to ...

Data Portability: The cool kids are all in, but will it work?

Two videos for a slow Sunday afternoon

You read TechMeme, right? For those who don't, it's a completely automated site that pulls, organizes and displays the hottest news from blogs at any given moment. It changes continuously, 24/7 in response the the "buzziest" news of the second. Amit Pagarwal at Digital Inspiration made a pretty cool 50 hour time lapsed visualization (down to 50 seconds) of the evolution of the TechMeme home page: And if you're familiar with the Scoble/Facebook thing (as well as that stupid video made about Britney by Chris Cocker), this might be a little entertaining:

Facebook Shared Items now in Tumble Log. It was harder than it should've been!

As a point of notification, I've now started to include my Facebook Shared Items in my Tumble Log (how's that for openness!). While it's technically true that I can export all of my shared items from Facebook via a handy RSS feed, it's not nearly that cut & dry. I treat Facebook Shared Items as a sort of social bookmarking service. I have a bookmarklet in my browser's toolbar and when I run across a site I enjoy, I stab it, enter any thoughts of my own and click submit. Facebook tries to extract an image from the page as ...

Your social graph: do you own the data?

A big stupid brou-ha-ha erupted last night when blogged Robert Scoble ran a script written by Plaxo against his 5,000 Facebook friends' information and got banned in short order. Scoble initially posted that Facebook banned his account and only later admitted he'd been screen scraping, or brute-force removing information from Facebook using an unnamed tool by a 3rd party (he was under NDA). Scoble was miffed that Facebook would ban him for trying to help "free" his "own social data" that "he owns." This isn't a new movement, people have been pressuring Facebook for a while now to let them ...